{"id":985,"date":"2014-07-25T23:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/?p=985"},"modified":"2014-07-25T23:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T23:27:57","slug":"rare-art-deco-pools-light-necklace-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/estate-jewelry\/rare-art-deco-pools-light-necklace-stars","title":{"rendered":"Rare Art Deco Pools of Light Necklace– with Stars!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Striking Pools of Light Necklace<\/p><\/div>\n

We acquired this highly unusual Art Deco Pools of Light necklace almost by accident. We recently purchased an\u00a0estate of wonderful early 20th century jewelry items, mostly rings and pins. This piece and another interesting rock crystal necklace were included in the group. Since they had no gold content, we didn’t think too much about them and paid only\u00a0a nominal amount. The wonderful thing about the jewelry business is that we learn something new everyday– in this case, we’ve discovered that this piece is\u00a0a valuable\u00a0Pools of Light necklace. Pools of Light jewelry was\u00a0very popular starting around\u00a0the\u00a0Late\u00a0Victorian era and was all the rage during\u00a0the Roaring 20’s.\u00a0At that time, these pieces were mostly imported from China. From the look and design of the metal work, we think that this necklace was made circa 1925. The silver fittings are nicely hand crafted. The clasp is substantially made to hold the weight of the necklace– it weighs over 5 troy ounces!<\/p>\n

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Silver Box Clasp<\/p><\/div>\n

Pools of Light jewelry\u00a0is\u00a0characterized\u00a0by perfect transparent spheres of rock crystal quartz. These crystal balls were believed to have mystical properties and to bring the wearer good luck.\u00a0The spheres were\u00a0never drilled through the center for stringing as beads, but were\u00a0set into jewelry with attachments to the outside so that their perfectly clear nature remains pure.\u00a0As the lore goes, the perfect sphere captured energy — if drilled through, the good luck\/energy would escape. The perfect spherical shape and highly polished surface gives these orbs wonderful optical effects, reflecting everything around them upside down and backwards. These crystal balls\u00a0handle light in much the same way as convex lenses do.\u00a0In the Stars and Light photo, just as a magnifying lens does, notice how the light is focused into a bright point and the shadows of the stars are magnified.<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a>

Stars \u00a0& Light Magnified!<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Lens Effect photo, you can see magnification and inversion when print is read thru the ball.<\/p>\n

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Lens Effect<\/p><\/div>\n

When light enters the\u00a0spheres at 0 degrees from the normal, the orbs will capture and reflect it back to the eye, lighting up with a powerful glow. We’ll\u00a0call this the Pool of Light Reflective Effect.<\/p>\n

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Pool of Light Reflective Effect<\/p><\/div>\n

After looking at images and descriptions of many\u00a0Pools of Light pieces\u00a0offered on the Internet, I realized that our necklace is very unusual and quite rare. Most of the necklaces are set in either plain silver wires which wrap the orbs or in settings that are rather floral in character.<\/p>\n

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Typical Pools of Light Settings<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see, our necklace is set with five pointed stars of silver attached to shallow holes in the surface of the spheres. Besides the two stars 180 degrees opposite each other which link the balls together,\u00a0the five largest orbs have a star placed in the middle between the links. We\u00a0have yet to see another Pool of Light piece with this star motif. Perhaps, the connotation of stars with energy of the spheres gave the necklace extra power!<\/p>\n

\"Stars\"<\/a>

Art Deco Star Decor<\/p><\/div>\n

Via Google search, all of\u00a0the\u00a0Pools of Light\u00a0necklaces we found\u00a0had spheres that are smaller than those in our necklace. The crystal balls on our necklace range from 17 to 23.4 mm! \u00a0Additionally, our\u00a0spheres are in excellent\u00a0condition and are perfectly eye clean, with no eye visible inclusions. \"BLOGCrystal<\/a> At this point, we’re researching the value of the\u00a0necklace. Vintage\u00a0Pools of Light pieces are highly sought after and very collectible. In the current market, it’s a unique\u00a0design with extra large high quality crystal balls, so we think the value can be substantial. We think this would be the Star of any Pool of Light collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We acquired this highly unusual Art Deco Pools of Light necklace almost by accident. We recently purchased an\u00a0estate of wonderful early 20th century jewelry items, mostly rings and pins. This piece and another interesting rock crystal necklace were included in the group. Since they had no gold content, we didn’t think too much about them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}